15 greatest motion pictures new to Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu: March 2022

March is lastly right here! The snow is starting to soften and the cool briskness of spring is simply across the nook. To not point out an entire slew of incredible new motion pictures to stream on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Criterion Channel, and extra. From Wes Craven’s horror traditional A Nightmare on Elm Road and Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi navy satire Starship Troopers to Man Ritchie’s new heist thriller Wrath of Man and Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (in addition to highly-anticipated streaming premieres of Oscar-nominated movies like Drive My Automobile and West Facet Story), there’s one thing for nearly everybody to stream this month.

With that in thoughts, we’ve pulled collectively a listing of one of the best motion pictures new to streaming in March that can assist you work out what to observe this month. We even have full lists of every thing coming to Netflix and Disney Plus in March, if that’s your cup of tea.

Received one thing else you’re excited to take a look at this month? Planning to test considered one of these out? Already did and beloved it? Make sure you tell us within the feedback.

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A Nightmare on Elm Road

The feeling that launched a franchise, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Road lives on as a horror masterpiece a long time later. Teenager Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her pals develop into the targets of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a deceased serial killer now haunting (and searching) folks of their desires. As Nancy’s pals begin dying of their sleep one after the other, she tries desperately to remain awake to outlive. A timeless slasher that may additionally hold you from sleeping, Elm Road and Krueger have endurance for a motive. —Pete Volk

A Nightmare on Elm Road is accessible to stream on Netflix and HBO Max.

After Yang

The most recent from Columbus director Kogonada, After Yang is a melancholy science fiction film that balances the query of how we should always take into consideration synthetic life with the extra intriguing query of the way it ought to take into consideration us. Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith star as adoptive mother and father elevating a younger Chinese language lady, with the assistance of a “technosapien” — an android programmed as her language tutor, cultural advisor, and large brother. When his programs fail, the household goes by means of precisely what they’d expertise on the loss of life of any member of the family, with the added query of what his loss of life tells them about their lives and relationships. It’s a small, quiet, meditative movie, but it surely’s visually wealthy and full of concepts about prejudice and assumptions, cultural assimilation, and the best way everyone seems to be navigating an internal life that will astonish everybody round them. —Tasha Robinson

After Yang is accessible to stream on Showtime Anytime and Showtime on Amazon.

Blue Velvet

David Lynch’s psychological neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet ranks among the many director’s best movies, that includes iconic performances courtesy of frequent Lynch collaborators Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, a terrifying flip for Dennis Hopper because the villainous Frank Sales space, and a heart-wrenchingly memorable efficiency by Isabella Rossellini because the troubled lounge singer Dorothy Vallens. Surreal, sensuous, totally fascinating, and ceaselessly disturbing, Blue Velvet is Lynch in his prime. —Toussaint Egan

Blue Velvet is accessible to stream on Hulu and Paramount Plus.

On line casino

Martin Scorsese’s Las Vegas drama is a excessive mark in his famend gangster image oeuvre. Ace Rothstein (Robert DeNiro), a star sports activities playing handicapper, is requested by the Italian mob to run the brand new Tangiers On line casino in Las Vegas. When his hothead previous pal Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) reveals up on the town and Rothstein falls for native hustler Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), issues get sophisticated. Impressed by the lives of actual folks, On line casino is one other enthralling research by Scorsese on the attract and risks of energy, and the place main such a life will depart you. —PV

On line casino is accessible to stream on Peacock.

Dazed and Confused

Set throughout the waning days of the senior class of a Austin, Texas highschool in 1976, Richard Linklater’s 1993 coming-of-age comedy follows a gaggle of youngsters navigating that awkward crossroads interval of seeking to future all whereas additionally seeking to get stoned, drunk, and fortunate within the right here and now. It’s wickedly humorous and boasts a forged of nascent names that ship breakout performances, together with Milla Jovovich, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, and Parker Posey. Haven’t seen it but? Nicely, it’d be so much cooler should you did. —TE

Dazed and Confused is accessible to stream on Peacock.

Drive My Automobile

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s drama was lately nominated for 4 Oscars, together with Finest Image, Finest Director, and Finest Tailored Screenplay, and eventually makes its extremely anticipated U.S. streaming debut.

From our greatest motion pictures of 2021 write-up:

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Automobile runs 179 minutes lengthy, but it surely earns each single minute. The opening preamble, practically an hour earlier than the opening credit performs, covers an outwardly completely happy marriage between stage actor Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his tv producer spouse Oto (Reika Kirishima). The pair get pleasure from a vigorous intercourse life, as Oto makes intercourse into writers-room classes by crafting tales aloud for Kafuku’s arousal. However quickly, the actor learns a devastating secret about his spouse. Earlier than he can confront her, tragedy strikes.

Drive My Automobile is a essential darling, with extremely lauded writing, route, and performing performances. It’s an expertise effectively definitely worth the three hours of its working time. —PV

Drive My Automobile is accessible to stream on HBO Max.

Hell Hath No Fury

Jesse V. Johnson is likely one of the greatest filmmakers working within the direct-to-video motion area immediately, and his newest movie Hell Hath No Fury is likely one of the excessive factors of his prolific profession. Marie DuJardin (Nina Bergman), a French girl, has been marked as a traitor for her relationship with a Nazi officer (Daniel Bernhardt). As World Battle II involves a detailed and Marie’s place sooner or later French society is unsure, she is rescued by a gaggle of American troopers on one situation: she should reveal the placement of a secret stash of Nazi gold and lead the group there.

What follows is a gripping, tense thriller virtually completely set in a cemetery, with a palpable air of uncertainty throwing every thing you assume you realize into query. Bergman is superb in a sophisticated, layered position, and Bernhadt brings an uncanny mixture of menace and attraction in one of many richest roles he’s had the chance to play. There are not any heroes on this story, solely survivors. —PV

Hell Hath No Fury can be obtainable to stream on Hulu on March 14.

I Was a Easy Man

Christopher Makoto Yogi’s (August at Akiko’s) ghost story is a sluggish burn meditation on loss of life, reminiscence, and what lives on after we depart. Because the aged patriarch (Steve Iwamoto, wonderful in his first lead function position) of a fragmented household nears the top of his life, he’s visited by each household within the current and ghosts from the previous, together with his long-deceased spouse (Constance Wu). Intergenerational tensions come up because the ghosts of previous conflicts return, too – squabbles and fights between relations lengthy estranged, in addition to the historical past of Hawaii’s path to statehood.

I Was A Easy Man takes us on this journey throughout totally different time durations and with evocative use of surrealism and dream aesthetics. A gorgeous film stuffed with beautiful pictures of the attractive landscapes and wealthy textures of Hawaii, it received the Made in Hawaii Award for Finest Function on the 2021 Hawaii Worldwide Movie Pageant. I Was A Easy Man is an unforgettable expertise that ventures to seize the ultimate days of 1 life on Earth. —PV

I Was a Easy Man is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel.

Land of the Useless

George A. Romero’s earlier zombie motion pictures like Night time of the Dwelling Useless and Daybreak of the Useless are what the horror grasp is understood greatest for, however the 2005 Land of the Useless is a superb entry to the zombie movie canon. Set in a post-zombie apocalypse feudal Pittsburgh (dominated by a deliciously cold-blooded Dennis Hopper), the zombies are actually organizing and organising for an assault on town. The rich residents of Pittsburgh dwell in a luxurious condo constructing, with everybody else fortunate sufficient to be inside the metropolis partitions relegated to a lifetime of poverty on the streets. Like many different Romero movies, Land of the Useless successfully wrestles with sophisticated themes, reflecting the issues of our present world by means of the space of a fictional one. —PV

Land of the Useless is accessible to stream on Hulu.

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock’s traditional 1954 parable of the perils of voyeurism stars James Stewart as L. B. Jefferies, an expert photographer (nursing a damaged leg after a snafu on the race monitor) who simply can’t assist however eavesdrop on his neighbors to boring the tedium of his recuperation. Suspecting that the person throughout from him might have murdered his spouse, he enlists the help of his girlfriend Lisa and his visiting nurse Stella to assist him examine, trying to find solutions that simply may put all of their lives in peril. Exquisitely well-paced and impeccably well-performed, Rear Window is likely one of the biggest thriller thrillers ever filmed. —TE

Rear Window is accessible to stream on Peacock.

Sorry to Hassle You

Boots Riley’s 2018 black comedy Sorry to Hassle You follows Cassius Inexperienced (Lakeith Stanfield), a telemarketer from Oakland dispirited by his thankless job pitching merchandise to predominantly white clients over the telephone. Issues rapidly take a flip for what at first appears the higher when Cassius learns to make use of his “white voice,” propelling him to success as he shoots up the company ladder to the commemorated place of “Energy Caller.” Absurd, hilarious, and unapologetically political, Sorry to Hassle You is an unabashedly distinctive movie stuffed with twists that’ll have you ever scratching your head as ceaselessly as you’ll be shouting on the display. —TE

Sorry to Hassle You is accessible to stream on Netflix.

Starship Troopers

A satirical adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel of the identical title, Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 biting sci-fi movie Starship Troopers takes place in future the place the Federation, a fascistic navy group that guidelines the Earth by means of a planet-wide system of necessary conscription, instigates a full-scale battle in opposition to a fearsome race of big alien bugs. Although derided when it first launched, the movie has since skilled a reappraisal within the a long time since to such a degree that it’s now championed as among the best and most perceptive science-fiction movies of its period. Would you wish to know extra? —TE

Starship Troopers is accessible to stream on Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max.

Unstoppable

The late Tony Scott’s final movie is considered one of his best, a working-class drama with a whole lot of thrilling motion and much more coronary heart. Denzel Washington stars as Frank Barnes, a veteran railroad engineer who begrudgingly has to coach Will Colson (Chris Pine), a newly employed younger prepare conductor. When a runaway prepare threatens a complete Pennsylvania city, the 2 need to work collectively to cease it, in opposition to all odds. Washington and Pine are excellent in a sophisticated working dynamic, with Pine representing a youthful class of employees unknowingly pushing Washington’s older group out of jobs. An thrilling 98-minute thrill experience, Unstoppable is loosely based mostly on a real story. —PV

Unstoppable is accessible to stream on Hulu.

West Facet Story

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the legendary stage musical is an absolute delight to behold. Stuffed with colour and life, the brand new West Facet Story pays homage to the primary whereas nonetheless distinguishing itself as its personal merchandise. Rachel Zegler (in her movie debut) and Ariana DeBose shine as Maria and Anita, incomes an Oscar nom for Finest Supporting Actress for DeBose. That’s considered one of seven nominations for the movie, together with Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Cinematography, Finest Manufacturing Design, and Finest Costume Design. Ansel Elgort is a drag each time he’s on display, however Tony was by no means essentially the most attention-grabbing character right here anyway. New West Facet Story is a delight, begin to end. —PV

West Facet Story is accessible to stream on HBO Max.

Wrath of Man

Man Ritchie’s newest collaboration with Jason Statham is equal elements heist and revenge thriller. H (Statham), a brand new safety guard at a money truck firm in Los Angeles, surprises his co-workers throughout a heist try with an environment friendly and skillful show of violence. As H comes into clearer focus for viewers and his co-workers alike, we study the true motive he has determined to ply his commerce at this specific enterprise. With a supporting forged that features Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Hartnett (taking part in a personality named “Boy Sweat”), and Scott Eastwood, Wrath of Man is a enjoyable two hour thrill experience. —PV

Wrath of Man can be obtainable to stream on Hulu and Paramount Plus on March 23.